Re: reenabling icomplete operation during read-buffer

From:

Stefan Monnier

Subject:

Re: reenabling icomplete operation during read-buffer

Date:

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:21:22 -0500

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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

> i'd love to simplify that to default icomplete-with-completion-tables
> to t, but it misbehaves dramatically for special tramp file visits,
> like /sudo:address@hidden:/etc/hosts or /ftp:...
These need to be fixed. At some point, they worked OK.
> unfortunately, it looks like read-buffer-to-switch (files.el) was
> changed to use a manufactured lambda as the completion table, which
> means that icomplete can't statically match it to recognize being
> within that completion context. i can add a condition like:
> (and (boundp 'rbts-completion-table)
> (equal minibuffer-completion-table rbts-completion-table))
> to get the behavior i want, but that is much too brittle - it depends
> on an internal detail of read-buffer-to-switch.
I've installed a different fix.
Stefan